Author Nick Gauthier

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Nick Gauthier is a web freelancer focusing on Ruby on Rails and JavaScript. His experience spans from SQL to Sass and he always tests, all the time. He wrote “Recipes with Backbone” with Chris Strom and recently released his most recent eBook “Mobile Web Patterns with Backbone.js”. Aside from freelancing Nick runs B’More Awesome, a Baltimore-based web training organization, and he also co-founded Exobrain, an online mind-mapping tool.

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“Why We Didn’t Use A Framework” (Case Study)

May 17, 2017 — When we set out to build MeetSpace (a video conferencing app for distributed teams), we had a familiar decision to make: What’s our tech stack going to be? We gathered our requirements, reviewed our team’s skillset and ultimately decided to use vanilla JavaScript … Read More…

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Streamlining Mobile Interactions

May 28, 2014 — The mobile web is a harsh environment: mobile processors are slower than their desktop counterparts; network connectivity is flaky; bandwidth is low; latency is high; and touchscreen keyboards are slow. The best mobile web applications are the ones that excel at handling … Read More…